Investment holding company Macau Legend Development Limited said this week that it expects to record an unaudited consolidated loss attributable to equity holders of the company of approximately HK$490 million for the first half of this year, as compared to approximately HK$107 million in the same period of last year.
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Macao hoisted signal No. 10 – its highest typhoon warning signal – for the first time this year in the early hours of Wednesday as Typhoon Higos heading towards Guangdong was moving close to Macao.
Findings from a survey carried out late last month show that about 66% of respondents felt stressed about the Covid-19 pandemic.
The immigration authorities of Macao and Zhuhai declined to estimate the number of visitor arrivals through the new Hengqin Port during the upcoming Chinese National Day holiday in the first week of October, commonly known as Golden Week.
A research team consisting of professors from the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) has showed that there is a substantial shared genetic susceptibility to one type of diabetes among populations with East Asian ancestry and in European individuals.
The Macao Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) lowered all its typhoon signals at 3:30 pm today.
Macao appears to have escaped major damage and injuries during Typhoon Higos even though storm warning signal No. 10, the highest typhoon signal, remained hoisted for 2 1/2 hours, between 5:00 am and 7:30 am today.
The Macao Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) will lower the signal level to Signal No. 3 at 11:30 am this morning as local winds will weaken. This will replace the Signal No. 8NE hoisted at 7:30 am earlier in the day.
Typhoon Higos has made landfall near the western coast of Zhuhai. The present No. 10 signal was replaced by No. 8 at 07:30 this morning.